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These seraphim maintain headquarters on the system capitals and, though closely
associated with the resident Adamic citizens, are primarily assigned to the
service of the Planetary Adams, the biologic or physical uplifters of the
material races on the evolutionary worlds. The ministering work of angels
becomes of increasing interest as it nears the inhabited worlds, as it nears
the actual problems faced by the men and women of time who are preparing themselves
for the attempt to attain the goal of eternity.
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On Urantia the majority of the planetary helpers were removed upon the collapse
of the Adamic regime, and the seraphic supervision of your world devolved
to a greater extent upon the administrators, the transition ministers, and
the guardians of destiny. But these seraphic aids of your defaulting Material
Sons still serve Urantia in the following groups:

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1. The Voices of the Garden. When the planetary course of human evolution
is attaining its highest biologic level, there always appear the Material
Sons and Daughters, the Adams and Eves, to augment the further evolution of
the races by an actual contribution of their superior life plasm. The planetary
headquarters of such an Adam and Eve is usually denominated the Garden of
Eden, and their personal seraphim are often known as the "voices of the Garden."
These seraphim are of invaluable service to the Planetary Adams in all their
projects for the physical and intellectual upstepping of the evolutionary
races. After the Adamic default on Urantia, some of these seraphim were left
on the planet and were assigned to Adam's successors in authority.

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2. The Spirits of Brotherhood. It should be apparent that, when an
Adam and Eve arrive on an evolutionary world, the task of achieving racial
harmony and social co-operation among its diverse races is one of considerable
proportions. Seldom do these races of different colors and varied natures
take kindly to the plan of human brotherhood. These primitive men only come
to realize the wisdom of peaceful interassociation as a result of ripened
human experience and through the faithful ministry of the seraphic spirits
of brotherhood. Without the work of these seraphim the efforts of the Material
Sons to harmonize and advance the races of an evolving world would be greatly
delayed. And had your Adam adhered to the original plan for the advancement
of Urantia, by this time these spirits of brotherhood would have worked unbelievable
transformations in the human race. In view of the Adamic default, it is indeed
remarkable that these seraphic orders have been able to foster and bring to
realization even as much of brotherhood as you now have on Urantia.

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3. The Souls of Peace. The early millenniums of the upward strivings
of evolutionary men are marked by many a struggle. Peace is not the natural
state of the material realms. The worlds first realize "peace on earth and
good will among men" through the ministry of the seraphic souls of peace.
Although these angels were largely thwarted in their early efforts on Urantia,
Vevona, chief of the souls of peace in Adam's day, was left on Urantia and
is now attached to the staff of the resident governor general. And it was
this same Vevona who, when Michael was born, heralded to the worlds, as the
leader of the angelic host, "Glory to God in Havona and on earth peace and
good will among men."
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In the more advanced epochs of planetary evolution these seraphim are instrumental
in supplanting the atonement idea by the concept of divine attunement as a
philosophy of mortal survival.

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4. The Spirits of Trust. Suspicion is the inherent reaction of primitive
men; the survival struggles of the early ages do not naturally breed trust.
Trust is a new human acquisition brought about by the ministry of these planetary
seraphim of the Adamic regime. It is their mission to inculcate trust into
the minds of evolving men. The Gods are very trustful; the Universal Father
is willing freely to trust himself -- the Adjuster -- to man's association.
P438:1, 39:5.8
This entire group of seraphim was transferred to the new regime after the
Adamic miscarriage, and they have ever since continued their labors on Urantia.
And they have not been wholly unsuccessful since a civilization is now evolving
which embodies much of their ideals of confidence and trust.
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In the more advanced planetary ages these seraphim enhance man's appreciation
of the truth that uncertainty is the secret of contented continuity. They
help the mortal philosophers to realize that, when ignorance is essential
to success, it would be a colossal blunder for the creature to know the future.
They heighten man's taste for the sweetness of uncertainty, for the romance
and charm of the indefinite and unknown future.

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5. The Transporters. The planetary transporters serve the individual
worlds. The majority of enseraphimed beings brought to this planet are in
transit; they merely stop over; they are in custody of their own special seraphic
transporters; but there are a large number of such seraphim stationed on Urantia.
These are the transport personalities operating from the local planets, as
from Urantia to Jerusem.

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Your conventional idea of angels has been derived in the following way: During
moments just prior to physical death a reflective phenomenon sometimes occurs
in the human mind, and this
dimming consciousness seems to visualize something
of the form of the attending angel, and this is immediately translated into
terms of the habitual concept of angels held in that individual's mind.
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The erroneous idea that angels possess wings is not wholly due to olden notions
that they must have wings to fly through the air. Human beings have sometimes
been permitted to observe seraphim that were being prepared for transport
service, and the traditions of these experiences have largely determined the
Urantian concept of angels. In observing a transport seraphim being made ready
to receive a passenger for interplanetary transit, there may be seen what
are apparently double sets of wings extending from the head to the foot of
the angel. In reality these wings are energy
insulators -- friction shields.

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When celestial beings are to be enseraphimed for transfer from one world to
another, they are brought to the headquarters of the sphere and, after due
registry, are inducted into the transit sleep. Meantime, the transport seraphim
moves into a horizontal position immediately above the universe energy pole
of the planet. While the energy shields are wide open, the sleeping personality
is skillfully deposited, by the officiating seraphic assistants, directly
on top of the transport angel. Then both the upper and lower pairs of shields
are carefully closed and adjusted.
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And now, under the influence of the transformers and the transmitters, a strange
metamorphosis begins as the seraphim is made ready to swing into the energy
currents of the universe circuits. To outward appearance the seraphim grows
pointed at both
extremities and becomes so enshrouded in a queer light of
amber hue that very soon it is impossible to distinguish the enseraphimed
personality. When all is in readiness for departure, the chief of transport
makes the proper inspection of the carriage of life, carries out the routine
tests to ascertain whether or not the angel is properly encircuited, and then
announces that the traveler is properly enseraphimed, that the energies are
adjusted, that the angel is insulated, and that everything is in readiness
for the departing flash. The mechanical controllers, two of them, next take
their positions. By this time the transport seraphim has become an almost
transparent, vibrating,
torpedo-shaped outline of glistening luminosity. Now
the transport dispatcher of the realm summons the auxiliary batteries of the
living energy transmitters, usually one thousand in number; as he announces
the destination of the transport, he reaches out and touches the near point
of the seraphic carriage, which
shoots forward with
lightninglike speed, leaving
a trail of celestial luminosity as far as the planetary atmospheric investment
extends. In less than ten minutes the marvelous spectacle will be lost even
to reinforced seraphic vision.

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While planetary space reports are received at noon at the
meridian of the
designated spiritual headquarters, the transporters are dispatched from this
same place at midnight. That is the most favorable time for departure and
is the standard hour when not otherwise specified.

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6. The Recorders. These are the custodians of the major affairs of
the planet as it functions as a part of the system, and as it is related to,
and concerned in, the universe government. They function in the recording
of planetary affairs but are not concerned with matters of individual life
and existence.

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7. The Reserves. The Satania reserve corps of the planetary seraphim
is maintained on Jerusem in close association with the reserves of the Material
Sons. These abundant reserves repletely provide for every phase of the manifold
activities of this seraphic order. These angels are also the personal message
bearers of the local systems. They serve transition mortals, angels, and the
Material Sons as well as others domiciled on the system headquarters. While
Urantia is, at present, outside the spiritual circuits of Satania and Norlatiadek,
you are otherwise in intimate touch with interplanetary affairs, for these
messengers from Jerusem frequently come to this world as to all the other
spheres of the system.